How do you record the heartbeats?

Little Heart Songs uses an Advanced Technology BabyBeat Doppler with Recorder (Model BB150A) to record the fetal and maternal heartbeats.

How far along do I have to be to have my baby's heartbeat recorded?

Your baby's heart will begin to beat at around six weeks and doctors will usually begin to look for it between ten and twelve weeks. We will record your baby's heartbeat anytime after twelve weeks. 

How can music help during labor?

• In 1983, Hanser, Larson, and O'Connell studied the use of music to enhance relaxation and decrease pain responses in mothers during childbirth. The music therapists used music to cue rhythmic breathing, assist the mothers in relaxation, prompt positive associations, and help focus attention on the music as a diversion fom pain and hospital sounds.....
  Results indicated that all of the mothers had fewer pain responses in the music vs. no-music condition, and that music aided concentration, relaxation, cued breathing, and diverted attention from pain. Coaches and hospital staff also responded well to the music, indicating that the music made a positive contribution to the labor and delivery experience.
  Submitted by Mary CiCamillo, Ed.D., MT-BC. Mary DiCamillo, Ed.D, MT-BC, is a Pre- and Peri-Natal Music Therapist/Doula at The Sound Birthing Program in Rancho Santa Margarita, California.
  This summary is based on the following article publiished in the journal of Music Therapy, which is the research journal of the American Music Therapy Association.
  Hanser, S., Larson, S.C. & O'Connell, A.S. (1983). The effect of music on relaxation of expectant mothers during labor. Journal of Music Therapy, 20 (2), 50-58.
  www.musictherapy.org/moment.html
  
  
• According to a study in Pain Management Nursing, you can alleviate the pain and emotional distress of labor by listening to music. "Soothing tunes can delay the need for pain medication," says Marion Good, Ph.D., R.N., an associate professor of nursing at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland.  "What's important is that the music distracts you from the pain," Dr. Good says. 
   http://www.parents.com/articles/pregnancy/5715.jsp
  

How can music help my baby get to sleep at night?

'Newborns possess a natural response to music through their conditioning in the womb to rhythm, sound and movement.'
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